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CONDUIT OUTLET BOX.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 13. I917.

1,3 1 4,372 Patented Aug. 26, 1919.

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ELDA G. SMITH, OF SYRACUSE, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR '10 CROUSE-HINDS COMPANY,OF SYRACUSE, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

- CONDU'IT' OUTLET-BOX.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 26, 1913.

Application filed July 13, 1917. Serial No. 180,808.

To all whom it ma concern:

Be it known t at I, ELDA G. SMITH, a

\ citizen of the United States, and a resident of Syracuse, in thecounty of Onondaga and State of New York, have invented a certain newand useful Conduit Outlet-Box, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to conduit outlet boxes and has for its object aparticularly simple and efficient conduit outlet box especiallyapplicable for inclosing the service wires for the controllers ofelectric railway cars, and the invention consists in 4 the novelfeatures and in the combinations and constructions hereinafter set forthand claimed.

In describing this invention, reference is bad to the accompanyingdrawings in which like characters designate corresponding parts in allthe views.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of this conduit outlet box showing the sameapplied to a railway car; the contiguous part of the body of the carbeing shown in section, and also the contiguous part of the conduitinclosing the service wires being also shown.

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the conduit outlet-box.

Fig. 3 is a sectional viewon line 3-3,

2. his conduitoutle't box comprises a body having an opening in one si ethereof, a tubular projection extending from the side opposite the openside and means on a lateral side of the body for connection to electricconduits, and a detachable closure for the opening.

1 designates the body of the box, the body having an opening 2 in oneside as its lower side, the opening extending over practically theentire area of said slde, In order to give greatest accessibility to thewires passing throu h the box.

3 is a tubu ar projection rlsmg from the wall 4 opposite the open side2, the wall 4 having a substantially flat upper face for lying againstthe under face of the floorin 5 of an electric railway car 6. The

ing 7 in the bottom of the floor 5 of the car so that its upper endopens into the controller box 8. The body 1 of the box is also providedon one of its lateral sides with means for connection to the conduitsinclosing the service wires and as here shown, it is provided with ahorizontal nipple or boss 9 having a pair of threaded passages '10 forconnection with the conduits 11 encircling the feed wires, the passagesopening into the body of the box 1.

12 is a closure for the open side 2, this closure being detachablysecured in position in any suitable manner as by screws 13 extendingthrough marginal flanges on Y the closure 12 and threading into openingsin a box 1 or in flanges rojecting from the box. The box 1 is providedwith means as lugs or flanges 14 projecting laterally from the top tereof near the up or flat face of the wall 4 and underlyin t e floor ofthe car body, and through which fastenin means as screws are passed.

he body is preferably cylindrical in general form with fiat upper andlower ends and the tubular projection 3 extends upwardly at one side ofthe center of the box, and the boss 10 1projects outwardly from thecylindrical we 1 of the body.

In use, the body is placed flatwise against 1 the under side of thefloor 5 of the car body the wires enter the controller box.

What I claim is:

An electrical conduit box comprising a body having a flat upper be'armgface, means on one of the lateral sides thereof for connection with apluralit of conduits, an upwardly extending tubu ar projection emmaextending from the fiat upper face at a substantially as an& for the.purpose depoint farthest remote from saifi confiuit scribed.v 7connection means and having its passage In testimony whereof, I havehereunto 10 greater than the combined cross sectional signed my name, atSyracuse, .in' the county area of the passages of said conduit 0011- ofOnondaga, and State of New York, this nection means, the body having itslower 5th day of July, 1917. side open, and. a closure for the openside, ELDA G. SMITH.

